This post was written for the September 2021 Carnival of Aces, where the theme is “The ‘We’ of Me.” In minority communities, we tend to use language like, “the asexual community” or “the trans community” to refer to the set of people in a particular identity group. And while my queer and neurodivergent identities do …
Category: Advocacy
Are the Straights Okay?
There's a lot of contempt for cisgender heterosexual (cishet) people in queer communities. Queer people regularly face discrimination from cishet people, and they tend to feel safer in queer spaces where they can be surrounded by people like them who "get it." These are spaces where queer people can vent about the discrimination, erasure, invalidation, …
The Power of Reappropriation Protest
In an increasingly progressive society, marginalized groups are more and more being empowered to fight prejudice and hatred wherever it appears. This kind of protest can take many forms; reappropriation is one form of protest in which groups fight disparaging words, symbols, and narratives by adopting them for their own use. This type of protest …
A Case for Representation
Marginalized groups have long campaigned for more equal representation in the media; they want to see more people like them in books, movies, shows, games, and other forms of entertainment. Many people outside those groups, however, don't understand why they make such a big deal of it or why current efforts to improve representation are …
